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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Talking abstractly about new strategies, a Plan B or the notion of a two-state solution for Cyprus secures neither the conditions for peace, nor the well-being of GREEK Cypriots, President Nicos Anastasiades said in an interview with the Athens News Agency on Saturday. In the run-up to the first round of ...

Talking abstractly about new strategies, a Plan B or the notion of a two-state solution for Cyprus secures neither the conditions for peace, nor the well-being of GREEK Cypriots, President Nicos Anastasiades said in an interview with the Athens News Agency on Saturday. In the run-up to the first round of ...

Nadia's campaign was a relentless string of testimonies, speeches, and in-depth interviews. At one point, while we were in GREECE, she went to Australia for three weeks on short notice, and I had no choice but to stay behind – this kind of trip just wasn't in the budget. The production company said if I flew ...

GREECE had hitherto used its veto for decades to obstruct the consensus agreement that both organizations need in order to admit new members, arguing that its northern neighbor's name implies territorial pretensions to the Greek region of Macedonia. The Republic of Macedonia, which is what the ...

G reece's once record jobless rate of 27% may have dropped seven points since the start of the financial crisis, but nearly six in 10 people are stuck in a market dominated by part-time, on-and-off jobs. At 26 and as a recent graduate of GREECE'S top school for political science, Julia lists the jobs she has ...

G reece's once record jobless rate of 27% may have dropped seven points since the start of the financial crisis, but nearly six in 10 people are stuck in a market dominated by part-time, on-and-off jobs. At 26 and as a recent graduate of GREECE'S top school for political science, Julia lists the jobs she has ...

GREECE, N.Y. (WROC-TV) – Chick-fil-A has selected narrowed down their projected opening to the month of April. The restaurant had previously said ... “Chick-fil-A is excited to open its second Upstate New York restaurant in GREECE with a projected April grand opening date. We look forward to sharing ...

Cyprus-based Cyta on Friday announced that Vodafone is its preferred bidder for the purchase of its Greek subsidiary, Cyta Hellas, confirming earlier reports by "Naftemporiki" newspaper. No mention is made by the parent company of a sale price, or subsequent steps. However, reports state that the ...

ATHENS, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Greece welcomed on Saturday the upgrade of Greek economy's credit rating by Standard & Poor's to B from "B-" as one more sign that the hard times come to an end and the country is moving steadily on the recovery path. "The ...

The ultimate goal of the scientists is to have a blood test that everybody will do every year, as is the case with mammograms in women, so that any cancer can be diagnosed early enough to increase the likelihood of cure and survival. Such a universal early diagnosis test, before the onset of the first ...

My father, a GREEK Orthodox priest from the island of Crete, immigrated to America in 1916, as a parish priest in the mining town of Price, Utah. His parishioners were young GREEK miners similar to those in the photograph. The Price miners, all from our family's island of Crete, had built a church but had ...

Former GREEK finance minister Yiannis Varoufakis misses no opportunity to let loose barbs against current prime minister Alexis Tsipras. This he did, once again, in an interview with Parapolitika 90.1 FM and Andreas Mazarakis, claiming that he called Tsipras an "idiot", while his targets also included ...

The National Bank of GREECE (NBG) is the first Greek bank that has achieved to entirely eliminate its dependency on the European Central Bank΄s Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA), bringing its ELA borrowing to zero. According to sources the bank has not only managed to wean itself off costly ELA ...

Turkey's agreement with the European Union to curb human trafficking across the Aegean appears to be in jeopardy again after a top Turkish official warned that a current impasse with the EU gives Ankara no reason to honor the deal. A collapse of the deal would put more pressure on GREEK islands ...

In an interview with the Athens News Agency, Austrian economist and outgoing chief of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) Thomas Wieser blames Greek politicians for the 2008 financial crisis in the country and says he supports Greek debt relief. Asked ...

There's a new chapter in the drama surrounding the 88-year-old Greek Theatre in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. Tim Leiweke and Irving Azoff's Oak View Group will make a play for the building's management contract, which is currently up for ...

Conservative New Democracy main opposition party retains a double-digit lead over governing SYRIZA, while a vast majority of GREEKS rejects the use of the term “Macedonia” in any new FYROM name, says a new poll by Metron Analysis published in “Ta Nea” news daily. A 10.5% lead of New ...

The National Bank of Greece (NBG) is the first Greek bank that has managed to entirely eliminate its dependency on the European Central Bank’s Emergency […] The post National Bank Has Eliminated Its Dependency on ELA Funding, Sources Say appeared first on The National Herald.

To the Editor: You have an excellent newspaper Ethnikos Kirikas and for that I congratulate you. In the past ten years, I have written you […] The post Letter to the Editor: Questions on Dual Citizenship and Greek Banks & Response by TNH appeared first on The National Herald.

To the Editor: You have an excellent newspaper Ethnikos Kirikas and for that I congratulate you. In the past ten years, I have written you […] The post Letter to the Editor: Questions on Dual Citizenship and Greek Banks & Response by TNH appeared first on The National Herald.

Bulgaria, one of the favored destinations for GREEK tourists, saw over one million arrivals from Greece in between January and November 2017. According to news from Sofia's news agency Novinite, growth over the same period of the previous year was over 8%. Also, the number of Bulgarians who ...

Greece could return to her sovereign national currency, her own sovereign central bank, make her own monetary policy and implements it with a sovereign public banking system that works solely for the GREEK economy. Within less than 10 years Greece would have recovered and would even be able to ...

GREECE'S old habits have certainly not died; they are in mint condition. The lapse, meanwhile, is never an accident; it is part of a mentality, a belief that is deeply rooted in the country's political history and society. Every new government attempts to take a small step of progress but its natural inclination is ...

Eurozone finance ministers are to meet in Brussels on Monday to assess GREECE'S progress in enforcing economic reforms, decide whether to disburse 6.7 billion euros in bailout loans and, Athens hopes, signal talks on debt relief. It was unclear if the loan tranche would be disbursed in its entirety, ...

112.ua: Foreign Ministry reports cars of diplomatic personnel set on fire near Ukrainian Embassy in GREECE. By Helen Mukhina. ... On the night from 19 to 20 January a group of unidentified persons set fire to private cars of employees of the Ukrainian Embassy in GREECE. This was stated on the air of 112 ...

Rho Gammas are Panhellenic women selected by the Executive Board who disassociate from their chapters in order to help Potential New Members (PNMs) through the recruitment process as unbiased listeners and friends with the goal of helping women find their place in TCU's GREEK life.

GREECE, as the cradle of the occidental civilization, has left a deep imprint in the history of the world not only with concepts and ideas but also with its language. However, there is also physical proof of its impressive past still visible through several archaeological sites, buildings, and monuments. It should ...

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Terens Quick will be in Alexandria, Egypt, tomorrow to attend the Divine Liturgy of the Holy Epiphany at the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, at which His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa will officiate, and the Blessing of the Waters ceremony at the Greek Yacht Club of Alexandria. Mr. Quick will take the opportunity of his visit to Egypt to meet with representatives of Greek community organizations in Alexandria and Cairo, as well as with the Egyptian Minister of Immigration and Expatriate Affairs, Nabila Makram.

Faure Brac (Irish flutes, banjo, guitar) is a multi-instrumentalist from France who is dedicated to Irish music, Christine Giraud is a Franco-Danish singer, Vaggelis Gettos is a GREEK musician who plays accordion, guitar, percussion and who has created the scenario for the performances, and Bekiaris is a ...

GREECE will exit the rescue program in August, with the fourth and final report being completed in June. Although the relationship between the Greek government and the creditors apparently improved in recent reviews, the question of what happens after the end of the program is still controversial.

20 (Xinhua) -- Face to face with the past came the audience at the Acropolis Museum in Athens on Friday evening when professor Manolis Papagrigorakis and his team unveiled the resurrected appearance of "Avgi" (Dawn), an 18-years old girl who lived around 7000 BC era in ancient GREECE.

At the end of the year 2017 the three phases of the preliminary work being carried out under the three-year program for the restoration of the Lodge of Philip II were completed, the Ministry of Culture and Sport announced. The program, with a total budget of 550,000 €, is implemented by the Ephorate of ...

Two things of importance have recently occurred. The yield on GREEK bonds has reached a new low (though, just in time to participate in a potential bear market) and the Syriza led government has enacted measures likely to secure the next tranche of euros. With the GREEK economy heading towards ...

DELOS, Greece – All the preparatory work before reconstruction begins on a major ancient public building on the island of Delos has been completed, the ministry […] The post Groundwork Prior to Reconstruction of Stoa of Philip V on Delos is Complete appeared first on The National Herald.

Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis once again outlined the reasons for his decision to send a letter to the leadership of Greece’s Supreme Court over the […] The post Kontonis about “Noor 1”: These Are Not Things We Can Tolerate appeared first on The National Herald.

SKOPJE (ANA/N.Frangopoulos)- FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Friday announced that he will meet with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on January 24 in Davos, […] The post FYROM PM Zaev Says He Will Meet with PM Tsipras on Wednesday in Davos appeared first on The National Herald.

ATHENS – The Greek parliament will fund the creation of a museum space inside the Auschwitz concentration camp for the Greek Jews who perished there, […] The post Parliament to Fund Museum Space on Murdered Greek Jews inside Auschwitz appeared first on The National Herald.

ATHENS – A series of lectures concerning “Avgi”, a female who lived around 7,000 BC in the Theopetra cave near Meteora in central Greece, will […] The post Mesolithic Woman’s Environment, Data Examined at the Acropolis Museum on Friday appeared first on The National Herald.

Greece is now better equipped to achieve economic growth in the future after the structural reforms it has implemented, the head of the International Monetary […] The post Lagarde: Greece is Now Better Equipped to Achieve Economic Growth appeared first on The National Herald.

As tobacco use plummets, figures reveal dramatic attitude shift from EU’s worst offender No campaign could do it. No health warning could do it. And, for a very long time, no change in the price of a pack could do it. But as they learn to survive on less, Greeks have earned themselves the unusual distinction of abandoning cigarettes in record numbers. In a rare feelgood story from the crisis-plagued country, experts who had previously blamed the nation’s tobacco epidemic for the critical state of its health system are in ebullient mood. “I am 100% sure we have solved the problem,” said Panagiotis Behrakis, who heads the Joint Action force on tobacco control in Europe. “It is now just a matter of time.” Continue reading...

Thomas Wieser, the outgoing chief of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG), is an Austrian economist with extensive experience in macroeconomic policy and EU financial affairs. He ostensibly is one of the few Europeans who have known from the start and “from ...

Talking abstractly about new strategies, a Plan B or the notion of a two-state solution for Cyprus secures neither the conditions for peace, nor the well-being of GREEK Cypriots, President Nicos Anastasiades said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian New Agency on Saturday. The interview was ...

The Saint Elias GREEK Orthodox Cathedral was inaugurated in Abu Dhabi by the Minister of Tolerance, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, and in the presence of Patriarch John X Yazigi, GREEK Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East. The new church is located in Abu Dhabi's Al Mussafah ...

ABU DHABI: A new Greek orthodox church has been inaugurated by a senior minister in the capital. Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, inaugurated the Saint Elias Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the presence of Patriarch John X Yazigi ...

Archaeologists called her Avgi – Dawn – because she lived at the dawn of today’s civilization. Last time anyone saw her face was nearly 9,000 years ago. She lived in Thessaly, Central Greece, at the end of the Mesolithic period around 7000 B.C. Greek and Swedish scientists reconstructed her face and presented it to the … The post “Avgi”, the girl that lived 9,000 years ago: Greek and Swedish experts reconstruct her face appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

The death last fall of a 20-year-old Florida State University fraternity pledge revealed pervasive dangerous behavior within the school's GREEK system. Andrew Coffey, a Pi Kappa Phi pledge, died from alcohol poisoning after an off-campus party, and authorities this week arrested several fraternity ...

Protesters dressed in black have torn down a sculpture shaped like an angel and broken two of its wings because they believe it looks like the devil. The 8-metre high sculpture is called “Phylax” which is Greek means “Guardian” and was erected in ...

Far from aspiring to reinforce GREECE and the country's negotiators in the talks, the planned protest rallies aim to compromise their position, to more or less portray them as “traitors.” Everyone has the right to express their opinion, to put forward their arguments (and sometimes these will be presented in ...